192 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

any Ship or Vessel, with Intent or in order that such
Ship or Vessel shall be employed in the Service of any
Foreign Prince, State, or Potentate or of any Foreign
Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or People,
or of any Person or Persons exercising or assuming to
exercise any Powers of Government in or over any
Foreign State, Colony, Province, or Part of any Pro-
vince, or People belonging to the Subjects or
Citizens of any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against
the Persons exercising or assuming to exercise the
Powers of Government in or over any Colony, Province,
or Part of any Province or Country, or against the In-
habitants of any Foreign Colony, Province, or Part of
any Province or Country, with whom His Majesty
shall not then be at War, or shall within the United
Kingdom or any of His Majesty's Dominions, or in
any Settlement, Colony, Territory, Island, or Place
belonging or subject to His Majesty, issue or deliver
any Commission for any Ship or Vessel, to the Intent
that such Ship or Vessel shall be employed as afore-
said, every such Person so offending shall be deemed
guilty of a Misdemeanor, and shall, upon Conviction
thereof upon any Information or Indictment, be punished
by Fine and Imprisonment, or either of them, at the
Discretion of the Court in which such Offender shall
be convicted; and every such Ship or Vessel, with fro
Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, together with all the
Materials, Arms, Ammunition, and Stores which may
belong to or be on board of any such Ship or Vessel,
shall be forfeited; and it shall be lawful for any Officer
of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or any Officer of
His Majesty's Navy, who is by Law empowered to
make Seizures for any Forfeiture incurred under any
of the Laws of Customs or Excise, or the laws of
Trade and Navigation, to seize such Ships and Ves-
sels aforesaid, and in such Places and in such Manner
and in which the Officers of His Majesty's Customs or Excise
and the Officers of His Majesty's Navy are empowered
respectively to make Seizures under the Laws of Cus-
toms and Excise, or under the Laws of Trade and Na-
vigation; and that every such Ship and Vessel, with
the Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, together with all
the Materials, Arms, Ammunition, and Stores which
may belong to or be on board of such Ship or Vessel,
may be prosecuted and condemned in the like Manner
and in such Courts as Ships or Vessels may be prose-
cuted and condemned for any Breach of the Laws
made for the Protection of the Revenues of Customs
and Excise, or of the Laws of Trade and Navigation.

And it is in and by the said Act further
enacted,-

That if any Person in any Part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any Part
of His Majesty's Dominions beyond the Seas, without
the Leave and Licence of His Majesty for that Purpose
first had and obtained as aforesaid, shall, by adding to
the Number of the Guns of such Vessel, or by the
Addition of any Equipment for War, increase or
augment, or procure to be increased or augmented, or
shall be knowingly concerned in increasing or aug-
menting, the Warlike force of any Ship or Vessel of
War or Cruiser, or other armed Vessel, which at the
time of her Arrival in any Part of the United King-
dom or any of His Majesty's Dominions was a Ship of
War, Cruiser, or armed Vessel in the Service of any
Foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, or if any Person
or Persons exercising or assuming to exercise any
Powers of Government in or over any Colony, Pro-
vince, or Part of any Province or People belonging to
the Subjects of any such Prince, State, or Potentate,
or to the Inhabitants of any Colony, Province, or
Part of any Province or Country under the Control of
any Person or Persons exercising or assuming to
exercise the Powers of Government, every such
Person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a Mis-
demeanor, and shall, upon being convicted thereof
upon any Information or Indictment, be punished by
Fine and Imprisonment, or either of them, at the
Discretion of the Court before which such Offender
shall be convicted.

Now, in order that none of Our Subjects
may unwarily render themselves liable to the
Penalties imposed by the said Statute, We do
hereby strictly command, that no Person or
Persons whatsoever do commit any Act, Mat-
ter, or Thing whatsoever contrary to the Pro-
visions of the said Statute imposed, upon Pain
of Our high Displeasure.

And We do hereby warn and admonish all
Our loving Subjects, and all Persons whatsoever
entitled to Our Protection, to observe towards
all and all of the aforesaid Sovereigns, their
Subjects and Territories, and towards all Belli-
gerents whatsoever with whom we are at Peace,
the Duties of Neutrality; and to respect, in all
cases, the Exercise of those belligerent Rights which We, and Our Royal
Predecessors, have always claimed to exercise.

And We do hereby further warn all Our
loving Subjects, and all Persons whatsoever
entitled to Our Protection, that if any of them
shall presume, in contempt of this Our Royal
Proclamation and of Our high Displeasure, to do
any Acts in derogation of their Duty as
Subjects of a Neutral Sovereign, in a War
between other Sovereigns, or in violation or
contravention of the Law of Nations in that
behalf, as more especially by breaking, or
endeavouring to break, any Blockade lawfully
actually established by or on behalf of any
either of the said Sovereigns, by carrying
Officers, Soldiers, Despatches, Arms, Ammuni-
tion, Military Stores or Materials, or any
Article or Articles considered and deemed to be,
contraband of War, according to the Law or
modern Usages of Nations, for the Use or
Service of any or either of the said Sovereigns,
that all Persons so offending, together with
their Ships and Goods, will rightfully be liable to hostile Capture, and to the
penalties denounced by the Law of Nations in
that Behalf.

And We do hereby give notice, that all our
Subjects and Persons entitled to Our Protection
who may misconduct themselves in the Pre-
mises will do so at their Peril; and of their own
wrong, and that they will in nowise obtain any
Protection from Us against such Capture or
Penalties as aforesaid, but will, on the con-
trary, incur Our high Displeasure by such
misconduct.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham
Palace, this Thirteenth Day of May,
in the Year of Our Lord, one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty-nine,
and in the Twenty-second Year of
Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's...